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China’s stand-up comedy experiment: Can ‘alien’ art form take off?

Posted on October 7, 2014

Kungfu Komedy Club looks much like any other back room in a Shanghai bar. But at show time, the Chinese mainland’s first and only full-time stand-up comedy club becomes a carefully-honed weapon of mass hilarity directed at the audience of locals, expats and tourists that frequently packs the room.

The club is at the epicenter of a thriving stand-up scene that a few years ago did not exist in the city, and that ultimately could bring stand-up comedy — an artform virtually unknown in China — to the masses.